My little Pony... wait no... Sketchbook!

mettigel

My name is Philipp, I'm 24 years old and I'm from Germany. At the moment I study Game art/Animation and will be finished in October 2014. I thought it will be a good idea to open a small thread to show my work.

I hope that you can give feedback and criticism. Proposals and what can be improved are of course also welcome!



I like Environment stuff. Most of all i like Stone things.

So here is my first Stone Work. This little Pillar is made in 3dsmax, Maya and ZBrush. It took me about 3 hours.

Cibo

My only concern are red stripes because you colored the broken areas.

Texelion

Came here for My Little Pony, I'm disapointed...

mettigel

@Cibo: You're right! I didnt see it ! Thank you!

@Texelion: Dont be disapointed

DWalker

You really should crop the screen shot; the column occupies very little of the area.

The near edge seems strangely dark; I'd expect it to be lighter than the darker side.

The three cuts above the lower stripe look artificial, and don't really fit with the rest of the design.

mettigel

Now I need some Help! It seems that I have a big mistake in my actual Workflow. I recorded a little Video. The Problem is this ugly seam on the lowpoly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5NhFy8BK3M

KnechtRuprecht

You have to use a cage in xNormal to get a clean bake, if you use smoothing groups/hard edges.
Take a look at the article in the Polycount wiki. (Texturing > Normalmap )

mettigel

First of all, thanks for all the help!
I created my first tileable Texture with 3ds max and Zbrush.
The goal was a tileable Wall texture for a castle or church. So what are you thinking of this creation ?



New Texture, now with Specular:

mettigel

A Rock, without texture.

mettigel

Final Texture. I'm not very good at texturing

urgaffel

Just a suggestion, have less empty space in your screenshots That stone looks nice but it's very small. Considering you have a 1920x1080 image, the stone is 1/4th of the image, if that. It would make it easier to see your work if the stones was larger. Same goes for the pillar you posted.

mettigel

You are right! I always forget to crop the image !
Thanks!

Here is the croped Version:

mettigel

At the Moment im Working on my Portfolio. I want to create some kind of temple. Like the Ta Prohm Temple.
But at the moment i have a Problem. I think the Texture Resolution is way to Low Res.
The Texture Size is 512x512 for the Bricks and 1024x1024 for the Pillar.
Any ideas?

mettigel

A new little Project besides the University Finals Project!
Nothing Special, just the regular M37 Shotgun

Highpoly: